Deloitte, DMCC and the Blockchain Game Alliance form a council to govern AI agents that control wallets

In Brief:

• The AI & Agentics Council has been announced by the Blockchain Game Alliance, Deloitte and Dubai free zone DMCC, joined by founding partners Xsolla, SKALE, The Sandbox and WAM (official site).
• Structured as a department within BGA, the council intends to build frameworks addressing governed autonomy, human accountability, model-independent infrastructure and economies open to agent participation.
• At issue are agents holding wallets and executing transactions with nobody pressing confirm — plus the liability question, still unresolved, that keeps institutional money away.

A standards body targeting AI agents that own digital wallets and move real money inside games is being launched by the Blockchain Game Alliance, Deloitte and DMCC, under the name AI & Agentics Council.

The founding partner list runs to six organizations: Deloitte, DMCC, Xsolla, SKALE, The Sandbox and WAM. The council sits as a department of BGA, a body that has spent eight years active in blockchain gaming and today counts roughly 350 members.

Four areas make up its stated scope. The council wants to produce frameworks for governed autonomy, for human accountability, for model-independent infrastructure, and for designing economies where agents can take part alongside players.

The wallet is what sets this class of agent apart from an NPC with a richer script. Such systems are able to hold funds, reach financial decisions and push transactions through without any user stepping in. Left open: who bears responsibility once an agent acts, and the conditions under which it may act on its own.

“Big Tech is racing to build AI Agents in corporate boardrooms,” read BGA’s launch post. “Meanwhile, the gaming industry has already quietly crossed the frontier.”

Who is at the table

A different layer comes with each partner. Payments for studios such as Epic, Ubisoft and Valve are Xsolla’s territory. SKALE operates a gas-free network engineered for games at scale. The Sandbox runs one of the larger virtual economies in web3. Audit and assurance are Deloitte’s contribution.

Jurisdiction is DMCC’s piece. Out of Uptown Tower, the Dubai government free zone operates three centres: an AI Centre home to more than 150 AI and robotics companies; a Gaming Centre whose more than 150 members represent roughly a third of Dubai’s gaming sector; and a Crypto Centre with more than 750 businesses. December 2022 saw the Gaming Centre launch. Seven core activities fall under DMCC’s AI licence, among them Autonomous AI Agents & Systems.

Founded seven years ago in Cluj-Napoca, competitive gaming platform WAM is the sole Romanian company in the founding group.

The capital argument

“We don’t think of agents as smarter players,” said Daniel Tămaș, co-founder and CEO of WAM. “We think of them as economic actors.”

The whole effort is shaped by that framing. Rather than tools bolted on to improve user experience, agents are treated as entities that engage with markets, arrive at decisions and participate in in-game economic mechanisms.

WAM co-founder Alex Rus made the argument commercially. “A common standard completely changes the calculus for anyone building in this space,” he said. Serious capital and large partners will keep their distance, Rus said, for as long as each company improvises alone. Write the rules jointly and attach names like Deloitte, Xsolla and DMCC to them, he said, and the barrier to entry for real capital falls sharply.

In a joint statement, the founders added that economic AI agents will transform how blockchain gaming works, that institutional investors will need clear, interoperable and safe rules before they enter the field, and that WAM’s involvement confirms its standing as an innovator in web3 gaming.

Groundwork

This did not come out of nowhere for BGA. April brought the publication of “Agentic AI in Gaming and the Emerging Digital Economy,” a six-section report working through a definition of agentic AI, infrastructure choices and constraints, agents inside live game environments, payments and KYC in in-game economies, early shapes of the agent economy, and the legal and operational realities.

Three shifts in digital entertainment are arriving simultaneously, the foreword argues: blockchain-native ownership, the maturation of AI reasoning, and programmable payment rails.

So far the council has drawn little English-language coverage. Romanian trade outlets produced the most detailed reporting, approaching the story through WAM.

Part of the plumbing is already in place. ERC-8004, the identity and reputation standard, is singled out in the BGA report as enabling infrastructure that is arriving quickly.